Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-06-01

4#---WlnneDag0C lJy news: Ontne ques-1
ton Of engaging teachers foranother year
at q recent meeting Of the School Board.
the three lady members voted as q unite
against the three gentlemen members,
thereby causing a deadlock 80 far as en-
gaging the parties under consideration.
-Olmsted County Democrant: N. N.
Hammond. whose visit to Austin was
noted last week reports quite . building
boom at that place, in fact he comedies
there is q good deal of. truth III the
blowing" which the Austin papers have
been doing--but after all is told, as q
place to live and do business in, he would
not exchange Rochester for Austin or
Owatonna and all their cross roads. car
shops, pottery establishments, ETC.,
thrown in. "
The passenger train on which Ned
Lewis returned from his Iowa visit last
week, was thrown from the track by q
broken rail. The engine broke loose
from the train and remained on the track.
The baggage car went over the bank,
landing bottom side up in the ditch. The
first passenger car followed, and striking
the end of the baggage car it turn.
ed, ran against a telegraph pole. tipped
over on It's side and stopped. About this
time Ned SAID he had woke up and scram,
bled out Of the car to see what was going
on. No one was seriously injured. Mar
row escape for such a lively shaking up.
-Messrs Knox and Catherwoood went
over to Rochester last Wednesday t as
sist in the survey of the Duluth, Red
Wing & Southern R. r. When they left
the surveying party Saturday it was in
the town of Sargent this county and COM
ing on at the rate of six or seven miles
per day. The gentlemen speak in glow
ing terms of the route passed over. MI.
Catherwood has had considerable expert
ence in running railroad surveys and he
p%ronounces the line they followed one of
the easiest to construct that he ever
worked on. Mr.. Knox returned to Sargent
Monday to continue the line to Austin.
Engineer Danforth who is surveying
on the route for the Duluth, Red Wing
& Southern Railroad, has the line nearly
completed to Austin. The survey has
ben made with the greatest skill and care,
with a view of securing the best possible
location, and that part of the route from
Rochester to Austin, IS an air line
most of the way, and for %cheapness in
construction cannot possibly be equaled.
1t opens up the best section of country
for a line of railroad, that there is in the
north west. The plat of the route will
be ready for inspection in a few days.
This is lust the road Austin needs, and by
exercise of the proper means, she can
secure it.
Rochester is getting stirred up on the
clay question as the folio wing from the
Post shows:
MI. N. N. Hammond showed US, the
other day, some specimens of the clay
from the newly developed beds at Austin.
It is a very fine article, suitable for the
manufacture of terra Gotta and other
wares. There are extensive deposits of it
and it is reasonable to suspose that it will
be Il source of great wealth to our neigh
bors at Austin.
1t is probably known to but few of our
citizens that there may be a deposit of
some uncommon and perhaps valuable
kind of earth in this city. We remember
that years ago, when Mr.. Henry Gere lived
on a lot which we believe is now part of
the Gilbert Smith place, just east Of the
Insane Hospital. Uncle Henry showed MS
a piece of what, so for as we can can re-
member, looked like a piece of chalk, and
said he had taken it out of a bed of it in
a slough on his place. He had been told
that it was a valuable variety of porcelain
clay.
The slough ought to be explored.